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The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
44.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals, the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century. What is love? asks ‘The ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The afterword for this edition is by David Stuart Davies. The challenge and pleasure of these stories is the simultaneous appeal to both child and adult with ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
12.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include The Happy Prince, who was not as happy as he seemed; The Selfish Giant, who learned to love little children; and The Star Child, who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
13.99 NZD
15.99 (12% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
18.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories: 'The Happy Prince', ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Oscar Wilde Collection by Oscar Wilde
24.99 NZD
34.99 (28% off)
Category: Classic Books
This illustrated compilation showcases Oscar Wilde's writing talent and features his very best work including 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young! If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who u ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
When first published, The Picture of Dorian Gray was regarded as dangerously modern in its portrayal of fashionable fin de siecle decadence. In Wilde's updated version of the Faust story, the tempter is Lord Henry Wotton, who lives selfishly for amoral pleasure; Dorian's good angel or conscience is the ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's know ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: The Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more